• A great night for QPR as their 2-0 victory over Portsmouth maintained their five-point lead at the top of the Championship. Things are not looking quite so upbeat for Portsmouth, though, who are now without a league win since December. Pompey are slowly being sucked towards relegation. Is their squad good enough to keep them up?

• QPR's challengers all seem stubbornly resistant to the idea of overhauling them at the top. Norwich did beat Millwall, but only thanks to a last-gasp winner at home, while Leeds had to come from two behind to draw at Hull and Cardiff traded late goals with Reading, going behind in the 90th minute but equalising through Craig Bellamy for a 2-2 draw at home.

• League One continues to intrigue. Brighton looked dead certs to win the division – and are still in a remarkably strong position – but they do not look quite as invincible as they did. They drew 0-0 with Leyton Orient, who are perhaps the division's most improved side of late. Both, of course, are in the fifth round of the FA Cup with notable wins on Saturday, but surely Brighton cannot throw it away in the league, can they?

• There was a glut of goals elsewhere. Bournemouth beat Swindon 3-2, Oldham continued to make quiet progress under Paul Dickov with a 4-0 thumping of Hartlepool but most striking of all was Peterborough's 5-3 victory over Sheffield Wednesday. Posh have looked very impressive since Darren Ferguson's return but these are worrying times for Wednesday. Yes, they beat Hereford in the FA Cup (thanks in part to their opponents being reduced to 10 men) but they have now conceded 18 goals in the last six league games.

• The only team who can rival Wednesday for bad defending are League Two's Stockport. They had conceded 65 goals before tonight's game against Chesterfield, who were also the division's top scorers. To general surprise they managed a 1-1 draw and actually led 1-0. They are still in a whole world of pain, though: they sit bottom of the league, level on points with Burton, who have the small matter of seven games in hand over them. Another odd fact about Burton, whose position is skewed by postponements, is that they are third-bottom of the entire league but their goal difference is only minus 1.